{"id":176,"date":"2012-04-12T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:04:56","slug":"gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Azura Day 14: Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We awoke just before dawn but could see the lights from the coast of Spain and hopefully Gibraltar.  Sun rose just as we were coming into view of the rock and we could see that Ventura was already in port.  She had changed her itinerary (days for arriving in Cadiz and Gibraltar were swapped over) so the two sister ships were in port at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We were booked on the Fortress Gibraltar<\/strong> tour and needed to be dockside by 9.05am.  We\u2019d ordered Coffee and Hot Chocolate for 7-7.30am \u2026 and it turned up just before 7am.  We watched our approach into Gibraltar until 8am-ish when we dived upstairs to the buffet for a quick breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Afterwards, we grabbed our stuff from the cabin and went ashore.  We were assigned the \u201cGreen 8\u201d minibus and our driver was a former military man from Scotland (can\u2019t remember his name!).  We first went out to Europa Point \u2013 the most southerly location of a Trinity Lighthouse, the made our way to the tunnels via the apes.  The apes were really quiet \u2013 we only saw three \u2013 probably a mother and two young apes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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